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Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
inside the Bureaux, the safety Officer works underneath the direct supervision of the Senior safety Coordinator or Senior safety Officer. inside the sector, the incumbent usually stories to the consultant, Deputy or Assistant consultant (safety), Head of Sub office or Senior safety Officer as relevant. The incumbent could have direct supervisory accountability for protection workers whose work may embody RSD, neighborhood-based mostly safety, registration, resettlement, complementary pathways, inside displacement and education, amongst utterly different areas. In HQ, the incumbent may report again to a Senior safety Officer, Chief of part or Deputy Director and ought to oversee utterly different safety workers.The incumbent acts as an advisor to senior administration in, when not accountable for, designing a full safety method underneath the world of accountability (AoR). S/he represents the group to authorities, UN sister companies, companions and utterly different stakeholders on safety coverage and doctrine.
The safety Officer coordinates extreme quality, well timed and efficient safety responses to the wants of populations of concern underneath the AoR. S/he ensures that individuals of concern of all age, gender and various teams are involved with the office in making decisions which have an effect on them, whether or not in accessing their rights or in figuring out and implementing relevant options to their factors. To undertake this position effectively, the incumbent may want to assemble and preserve efficient interfaces with utterly different related teams contained in the operation or the Bureau (collectively with programme; PI and exterior relations; IM) and with DIP, communities of concern, authorities, safety and assist companions as properly as to a broader community of stakeholders who can contribute to enhancing safety and reaching options.
All UNHCR workers members are accountable to carry out their duties as mirrored of their job description. They accomplish that inside their delegated authorities, in accordance with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which incorporates the UN structure, UN workers legal guidelines and guidelines, UNHCR insurance coverage policies and Administrative instructions as properly as to related accountability frameworks. as properly as, workers members are required to discharge their obligations in a method according to the core, purposeful, cross-purposeful and managerial competencies and UNHCR’s core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for range.
Duties
– current technical steering and assist to UNHCR and companions on all safety associated factors.
– preserve abreast of and report as related on authorized political, social, financial and cultural developments which have an influence on the safety environment.
– have interplay related nationwide authorities and constructions in figuring out and rising alternatives in view of creating or strengthening nationwide asylum/RSD packages.
– Facilitate a consultative course of with authorities counterparts, companions and individuals of concern to develop and implement a full safety and options method addressing the exact safety wants of males and women, kids, youth and older individuals, individuals with disabilities, individuals of various sexual orientation and/or gender identities (LGBTI individuals), individuals residing with HIV/AIDS; gender equality and Gender based mostly Violence (GBV) priorities with regard to these individuals.
– In operations making use of the Cluster strategy, search to make sure that the response of the safety Cluster is grounded in a method which covers all assessed and prioritized safety wants of the affected populations.
– assist senior administration to make sure that the safety method is completely constructed-in into the nation Operations Plan, the UN enchancment and assist Framework (UNDAF), the Humanitarian nation staff’s widespread humanitarian response plan the place relevant, as properly as to with the implementation of the worldwide Compact on Refugees and the Three 12 months method on Resettlement and Complementary Pathways.
– Promote related worldwide, Regional and nationwide legal guidelines and relevant UN/UNHCR and IASC coverage, requirements and codes of conduct and be sure that every sectors and /or in clusters in relevant operations fulfil their obligations in mainstreaming safety.
– Promote the implementation of the AGD coverage, collectively with UNHCR’s up so far commitments to women and women, and, design, ship I and monitor programmes on an AGD basis to deal with recognized safety wants.
– Develop, implement and monitor neighborhood-based mostly safety strategies and guarantee systematic utility and integration of participatory and neighborhood-based mostly approaches in safety and options planning, programming and strategies.
– assist the institution of suggestions and response packages and the incorporation of suggestions acquired from individuals of concern into programme design and adaptation.
– assist the operation to develop and implement sturdy prevention, identification, and responses to fraud inside safety processes and procedures, collectively with registration, RSD, resettlement and complementary pathways, making sure the integrity of interventions throughout all safety actions.
– assist UNHCR administration at nation stage to adjust to polices and dedication on safety from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse measures.
– Oversee and handle particular person safety circumstances collectively with these on GBV and youngster safety.
– current authorized suggestion and steering on safety factors to inside and exterior interlocutors; guarantee authorized assist is accessible to individuals of concern; liaise with competent authorities to make sure that the issuance of private and utterly different related paperwork to individuals of concern (collectively with women and others in want of civil documentation, significantly delivery certificates).
– As designated knowledge safety level of curiosity, assist the information controller in ending up his or her obligations relating to the information safety coverage (7.2 DPP).
– Oversee and undertake eligibility and standing willpower contained in the AoR making sure compliance with UNHCR procedural requirements and worldwide safety guidelines.
– Promote and implement efficient strategies and measures to establish, forestall and decrease again statelessness contained in the AoR.
– Contribute to the event and implementation of an education plan as an ingredient of safety method contained in the AoR as related.
– Contribute to the event and implementation of a youngster safety plan as an ingredient of the safety method contained in the AoR making sure programmes use a youngster safety packages strategy.
– Monitor, and intervene in circumstances of refoulement, expulsion and utterly different safety incidents by means of working relations with governments and utterly different companions.
– Work to safeguard the rights of individuals of concern inside the context of blended actions as related.
– Coordinate the preparation of, implement and oversee commonplace working Procedures (SOPs) for all safety/options actions.
– be sure that sturdy options by means of voluntary repatriation, native integration and the place relevant, resettlement and complementary pathways are sought and provided to the most vital doable quantity of individuals of concern, collectively with endeavor and/or overseeing resettlement and complementary pathways actions.
– Contribute to the coordination of the design, implementation and evaluation of safety associated programming with implementing and operational companions.
– Contribute to and facilitate a programme of outcomes-based mostly advocacy by means of a consultative course of with sectorial and/or cluster companions.
– be sure that the safety Sector or Cluster has an environment nice knowledge administration part which: supplies disaggregated knowledge on populations of concern and their factors; researches, collects and disseminates related safety knowledge and good practices to enhance safety supply.
– construct the safety performance of nationwide and native authorities, companions and civil society to imagine their obligations vis-à-vis all individuals of concern by means of safety teaching, mainstreaming and associated actions.
– Coordinate performance-constructing initiatives for communities and people to declare their rights.
– Advise and capacitate nationwide authorities, related institutions and civil society to strengthen legal guidelines and standing willpower procedures and mechanisms.
– carry out utterly different associated duties as required.
For positions in Bureaux
– assist the Regional Bureau and nation Operations to replicate the safety and decision angle in assist of individuals of concern inside regional processes.
– assist nation Operations inside the event of strategies to assemble and extra develop nationwide asylum/RSD packages with a view to making sure their equity, effectivity, adaptability and integrity, beneficial safety environment and options.
– assist UNHCR administration at regional and nation stage to adjust to polices and dedication on safety from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse measures.
– assist nation Operations and guarantee they meet their complementary pathways targets and resettlement quotas.
– In shut collaboration with DIP, (a) contribute to the event of background and primary normative, coverage, and authorized positions, in compliance with UNHCR’s worldwide safety insurance coverage policies and requirements; (b) contribute to the event of strategies on the regional and nation stage on the utilization of legal guidelines and coverage approaches, collectively with legislative and judicial engagement and UN human rights mechanisms – and/or regional ones – and utterly different safety frameworks, and constructed-in human rights requirements in safety strategies and advocacy; and (c) assist coordination and evaluation of UNHCR’s nation stories to the UN human rights mechanisms.
– have interplay in related worldwide and regional fora and contribute to forging regional partnerships to advocate for key safety and mandate factors, and have interplay in cross-chopping safety-associated issues, collectively with blended movement, inside displacement and local climate change/disaster-associated displacement responses, as properly as to Statelessness, in cooperation with DIP and the place related RSD.
minimal skills
Years of expertise / diploma stage
For P3/NOC – 6 years related expertise with Undergraduate diploma; or 5 years related expertise with Graduate diploma; or 4 years related expertise with Doctorate diploma
discipline(s) of education
legal guidelines; worldwide legal guidelines; worldwide Refugee legal guidelines;
worldwide Human Rights legal guidelines; worldwide Humanitarian legal guidelines;
Refugee and compelled Migration research; Political Sciences
or utterly different related discipline.
(discipline(s) of education marked with an asterisk* are important)
Certificates and/or Licenses
safety studying Programme
RSD- Resettlement studying Programme
(Certificates and Licenses marked with an asterisk* are important)
related Job expertise
important
minimal 4 years of related expert expertise inside the world of refugee safety, inside displacement, human rights or worldwide humanitarian legal guidelines, collectively with expertise in working straight with discipline places of work. Good knowledge of worldwide Refugee and Human Rights legal guidelines and expertise to use the related authorized guidelines. glorious authorized evaluation, analytical expertise and drafting.
fascinating
various discipline expertise. Good IT expertise collectively with database administration expertise.
purposeful expertise
*PR-safety-associated ideas, requirements and indicators
*PR-Age, Gender and various (AGD)
PR-Human Rights Doctrine/requirements
PR-worldwide Humanitarian legal guidelines
PR-full options Framework
LE-Judicial Engagement
PR-evaluation of IDPs standing, Rights, Obligation
PR-local climate change and disaster associated displacement
PR-Accountability to Affected people – guidelines and Framework
PR-Gender based mostly Violence (GBV) Coordination
(purposeful expertise marked with an asterisk* are important)
Language requirements
For worldwide expert and discipline Service jobs: knowledge of English and UN working language of the obligation station if not English.
For nationwide expert jobs: knowledge of English and UN working language of the obligation station if not English and native language.
For primary Service jobs: knowledge of English and/or UN working language of the obligation station if not English.
All UNHCR workforce members should individually and collectively, contribute in direction of a working environment the place every particular person feels protected, and empowered to carry out their duties. This contains by demonstrating no tolerance for sexual exploitation and abuse, harassment collectively with sexual harassment, sexism, gender inequality, discrimination and abuse of power.
As people and as managers, all ought to be proactive in stopping and responding to inappropriate conduct, assist ongoing dialogue on these issues and talking up and in search of steering and assist from related UNHCR assets when these factors come up.
that is usually a conventional Job Description for all UNHCR jobs with this job title and grade stage. The Operational Context may comprise extra important and/or fascinating skills relating to the exact operation and/or place. Any such requirements are included by reference on this Job Description and is most seemingly thought of for the screening, shortlisting and various of candidates.
Desired Candidate Profile
The safety Officer at Tripoli SO covers a quantity of portfolio associated to primary safety, collectively with authorized, civil documentation, entry to territory, and detention. The safety Officer additionally helps the coordination of the safety Working Group on the sub-nationwide stage and acts as officer in cost inside the absence of the Senior safety Officer. The incumbent shall subsequently reveal sturdy technical knowledge on UNHCR safety insurance coverage policies collectively with coordination expertise and expertise to converse effectively with companions. The incumbent must have earlier managerial expertise as properly as to publicity to various operational contexts, and expertise to innovate
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